Giants Considering Offer For Sabathia?

The longer this offseason goes on, the more I believe Sabathia is not interested in pitching for the Yankees.

However, one of these West Coast teams are going to have to step up and offer something close to the $140MM. No way C.C. leaves $30-$40MM on the table.

What we didn't know? His wife is really Sabathia's agent! lol Next she will request that she prefers that Sabathia only pitches home games and gets the Clemens deal where he only pitches home games.

If the Giants are going to spend on more pitching and forget about the hitting, then he can get ready to lose alot of 3-2 games. Giants have the potential to be good but it's just my personal opinion they need another run producer in the lineup more than an ace type pitcher.

I would much rather have CC sign with the Yankees than sign with the Giants, and I really dont want him to sign with the Yankees.

Then again, Im still hoping the Dodgers can sign CC, but i really dont know with the way Mccourt is acting like he is broke.

My opinion is that the teams in for CC, like the Angels and the Giants need more offence that pitching. So I think it doesn't make sense. Yeah great pitching staff, but you know what? You still won’t win b/c you can’t hit. Check their offence, who is their power hitter? Take that money and sign Dunn, Hudson and trade for Konerko, and I bet they will win some freaking ball games.

As a suffering Giants fan, I had opposed a Sabathia signing. But if the offer is around 105 to 110, I can't argue with that. Can't forget that Sabathia would bring perhaps the third biggest bat to the line-up on his days to pitch.

how about the Giants sign CC and then look into swapping Cain for Prince?? CC and Prince were apparently inseperable in Milwaukee and the Cain/Fielder ruor has been mentioned before

Sabathia, as a married man, if your wife is willing to leave over $20 million on the table to live in SF instead of NY, you'd better sign with SF. Marital bliss is well worth the $20+ million.

I see the Giants offering, and Sabathia accepting a 6 year 120 million dollar deal. I think they will trade Sanchez and Alderson for a bat. Cain will stick around at least one more year. It's not like he costs them anything.

So the Giants pretty much have Renteria nailed down too.

The only question left is what kind of a bat can you get for Sanchez and Alderson, or Sanchez, Burris and Alderson?

I know this sounds silly, but the Giants probably could buy a NL West title. Add Rent, Sabathia, Cantu (if they really trade Sanchez), and maybe another piece... meanwhile Dodgers' offense appears to be downgrading, Arizona isn't as powerful as though, Rockies are a mystery but without Holliday, and the Pads are aiming for the cellar. It's crazy, but possible.

If we miss out on Burnett and went after Sheets do you think that would help lure CC??

The Warriors have no bearing on where CC will go.

If CC is the 3rd best bat in your lineup, then you will lose 100 games no matter who is pitching.

Passing on CC does not leave enough money to sign Dunn, Furcal and Sheets. You have to look at what the cost would be per year, not total value. Sheets will be around $15 million, Dunn around $12-14 million and Furcal around $10 million. The Giants are not going to shell out $37-40 million for FA's.

55saveslives,

If the Giants offer $100 million you don't think the Yanks would/could/should UP their offer to CC to say $160 million?

Let's see its either that or take Ponson out of rehab again or give the store to Kennedy and Hughes.

The Yankees won't be outbid for CC. It'll have to be proximity to home and the Yankees will do whatever they have to to make that one difficult choice. Oh and the union might be a touch unhappy if he kills the market for everyone else.

Everybody gives their opinion from a fans perspective. Of course Giants fans would want him to take less. Maybe he is not holding off b/c he want to play for a west cost team, maybe is b/c there is no reason for him to sign right away and is looking to see if he an get more. Anyway you look at it 20 million is 20 million and people say that it’s nothing. Actually 20 million means more to rich people than to poor. All I have seen is that when a player signs for big money with a bad team, they get tired of just making the money

Ivdown, McCourt is broke. Or, at least, he's not rolling in the dough. Look, he barely qualified to buy the Dodgers, his finances have always been shaky by MLB standards, which is why MLB "chose" Henry instead of McCourt to buy the Red Sox when they were for sale. MLB just didn't trust McCourt with the Red Sox.

Now if McCourt had hired a good GM he might not be saddled with contracts like Jones and Pierre's, but I suppose his hiring of Colletti also explains his tight finances. Bad decision making as a whole on the McCourt's part.

In short, I don't see them getting CC or Manny this winter. Better hope those young guys keep progressing because the old guys they used to fight with aren't going to be around much longer.

"Actually 20 million means more to rich people than to poor."

hahahaha. got a good chuckle out of that one.

All I have seen is that when a player signs for big money with a bad team, they get tired of just making the money

Posted by: DominicanYanks | December 04, 2008 at 11:15 AM

The Yanks and Domincan players would know wouldnt they.

CyLincecum,

If that's right that players signing for big money with a bad team get tired of just making the money then Zito's gotta be downright exhausted right about now.

I would think that CC would want a deal that is better than Zito.

They would have a sick rotation however. All the pressure would be off of Zito and maybe he could bring it back around.

Maybe Bonds comes out of "retirement" and plays for the money to cover his legal fees and provides some offense on days when CC pitches. :-)

But I bet if the get CC they do trade for the Prince however he is going to be due some real money soon.

CMM,

I don't think you ever went to a Giants game or watched a Giants game this year. Because even though fans hate the contract Zito got for 126 million, Giants fans are actually very supportive of Zito. I don't know why and I can explain why.

As for signing CC, if it happens i can almost guarantee that the Giants instantly trade Sanchez to the Marlins for Cantu. I don't think that a infield of Sandoval, Renteria, Burriss, and Cantu is that intimidating and great in terms of defense, but it beat having an infeild of Castillo, Vizquel, Durham, and Aurilia.

Here's the way I see this playing out:

-Giants sign CC for 6 years/$130M.

-Brewers and Giants swap Matt Cain and Prince Fielder.

I'm not sure how much truth there was to the Fielder/Cain rumors towards the end of the season but if the Giants get CC, I would imagine talks with the Brewers could be (re)opened.

I can't wait for the yankees to miss out on all of the big FA's and end up with their marquee signing being Randy Wolf.

You guys don't get the giants situation. Sure they need a big bat. But no legit power hitter wants to come to SF.

Tex and Dunn do not want to play in SF. There numbers will take too big of a hit.

The Giants best chance of getting a good #4 hitter is to sign CC so they can trade Cain for a bat. Signing CC means the Giants trade pitching for Fielder.

Signing CC probably helps the giants offense more than the pitching staff. The upgrade from Cain to CC isn't nearly as big as the upgrade from Ishiwaka to Fielder.

Anyone saying the Giants won't sign CC because they need a bat not pitching needs to think about that a little more.

How many poor people have (or worry about) $20 million?